Keita Takahashi
Game designer (Katamari Damacy)
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Software developer (Redis)
Stephen Wolfram
Scientist, developer, mathematician
Dave Shea
Designer, illustrator
Stewart Smith
Programmer, graphic designer
Mitch Altman
Inventor
Dustin Curtis
Writer, UX designer
Michael Lopp
Engineering manager, reposer
Laura Khalil
Marketer, puzzler, robot builder
Sue Allspaw
Poet, information security analyst
Colin Percival
Developer, security officer (FreeBSD)
Ben Hammersley
Editor (Wired UK), war correspondent
Craig Mod
Writer, designer, publisher, developer
Christopher Leary
Musician (Ochre)
American McGee
Game designer
Joel Johnson
Writer
Maggie McFee
Technologist
Tim Bray
Developer Advocate, Google
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Architect, Bing Maps/Mobile
Andrew "Bunnie" Huang
Hardware misfit
Bobbie Johnson
Writer
David Heinemeier Hansson
Software developer
Guy Kawasaki
Venture capitalist, entrepreneur
Bert Kersey
Apple II developer, bird fancier
Anne Halsall
Interface designer
Derek Powazek
Designer, writer, small dog appreciator
Jason Rohrer
Game developer (Passage)
Adam Saltsman
Game designer (Canabalt)
Mark Pilgrim
Developer advocate, Google
Richard Stallman
Freedom campaigner
Dan Cederholm
Web designer (SimpleBits)
Aaron Swartz
Hacker, activist
Loren Brichter
Mac/iPhone developer (Tweetie)
Cal Henderson
Web developer, professional asshat
Jeffrey Zeldman
Web designer, fan of Web Standards
Allan Odgaard
Mac developer (TextMate)
Amy Hoy
Interface designer
Khoi Vinh
Designer director, NYTimes.com
Dan Benjamin
Developer, broadcaster
Amit Gupta
Photographer, entrepreneur
Máirín Duffy
UI designer, usability tester (Red Hat, Fedora)
danah boyd
Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Steve Jackson
Game designer
John Martz
Illustrator, robot
Sam Brown
Illustrator, Exploding Dog
Violet Blue
Writer, speaker, sex educator
John Siracusa
Programmer, writer for Ars Technica
Joe Hewitt
Creator of Firebug, iPhone developer for Facebook
Jakob Nielsen
UX expert for Nielsen Group
Ben Fry
Data designer, co-creator of Processing
Anselm Hook
MakerLab hacker, CTO of Meedan
Alex Kohlhofer
Web developer (Weewar, Spreedly, No Kahuna)
Sophia Teutschler
Mac developer (CoverSutra, Groceries, Tipulator)
Garrett Murray
Film maker, creator of Ego
Steph Thirion
Game developer (Eliss)
James Thomson
Mac developer (DragThing, PCalc)
Paul Graham
Head of YCombinator, creator of the Arc language
Gina Trapani
Writer, blogger, creator of smarterware.org
why the lucky stiff
Internet rodent
Jonathan Coulton
Internet musical superstar
David Lanham
Visual artist, iconographer for The Iconfactory
John Gruber
Writer, Daring Fireball
Steven Frank
Mac developer, co-founder of Panic
Gabe Newell
Co-founder of Valve
Jona Bechtolt
Half of the band YACHT
Alex Payne
Developer, API bitch at Twitter